Open Access

« The NORF-funded pilot National Open Access Monitor has been launched and is available at https://oamonitor.ireland.openaire.eu/. (…) »

« Academic institutions have made significant investments to support public access to research data requirements, yet little to no data about these services, infrastructure, and costs currently exist or are widely shared. For public access to research data to be optimized, funding agencies, institutions, and organizations must better understand the investments…

« Open Science (OS) aims, in part, to drive greater societal impact of academic research. Government, funder and institutional policies state that it should further democratise research and increase learning and awareness, evidence-based policy-making, the relevance of research to society’s problems, and public trust in research. (…)This study fills this gap…

« In their recent discussion paper “Towards a Federated Global Community of Diamond Open Access,” Pierre Mounier (OpenEdition, OPERAS) and Johan Rooryck (cOAlition S, Glossa) propose a means of organizing various Diamond Open Access initiatives inspired by a number of current factors shaping open access (OA) today. These…

« The 2nd Diamond Open Access Conference brought together stakeholders from around the globe to…

« This paper aims to analyze the extent to which inventive activity relies on open science. In other words, it investigates whether inventors utilize Open Access (OA) publications more than subscription-based ones, especially given that some inventors may lack institutional access. (…) »

« Following a flurry of policies for Open Science (OS), there is now a wave of initiatives to monitor its adoption. However, the great diversity of understandings and activities related to Open Science makes monitoring very challenging. There is a danger that by focusing on what can be readily observed (e.g.…

« It is important, every now and then, for an organisation to take a step back and look at progress. 2023 was a good opportunity for OASPA to pause and take stock. We made time to check in with our members, we reviewed how and why they connect with us, and…

« For 2 decades, advocates of open access in scientific publishing have offered a fundamental justification: Making papers immediately free for anyone to read would speed the dissemination of findings and accelerate research progress.
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« OASPA has developed a draft of recommended practices to help publishing organisations increase equity in open access. These recommendations are currently undergoing extensive, multi-step, internal and external review. This post tells the story of how we got to this point, and why. Following review and revisions, we will be sharing…